NOT TIG

Well, that's what an aluminum MIG bead should look like!

Indeed.

Ive done as pretty a job with alumininum stick welding rod.

Once... sigh......

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It is? So what's the technique, to pause and build a pool and then move forward to the next in order to get that type of result?

The only aluminum MIG I've done was on 18 ga and pausing wasn't much of an option for that.

Many times, when I want to leave a MIG weld showing, I'll just stack tacks, and then buff it off with an electric wire wheel. Next time I'm welding, I'll do one and post it on Flickr.

For the layman, it just looks good. Most welders are fooled by it, and I say, "Oh, it's just something I TIG'ed."

Steve

Yep- Looks like "triggering" to me. Just pull, hold a sec, release, move, pull, hold a sec, rinse and repeat...

Works for almost any wire-feed process to create a fake tig weld.

Gotta watch out for lack of fusion and poor penetration, though, and crater pits if you trigger to fast...